Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C.

Maccabi Tel Aviv Football Club (Hebrew: מועדון כדורגל מכבי תל אביבcode: he is deprecated ; Moadon Kaduregel Maccabi Tel Aviv) is an Israeli football club. It is one of the oldest clubs in Israeli football. The club is also the most successful. They have won 18 championships, 22 national cups, 2 Asian Champions Cups and 3 Toto cups. The homeground of the team is the Bloomfield Stadium in Tel Aviv, where also the city rival Hapoel Tel Aviv is playing.

Full name	Maccabi Tel Aviv Football Club
Founded	1906
Ground	Bloomfield Stadium, Tel Aviv (capacity: 29,400)
Chairman	Mitchell Goldhar
Manager	Robbie Keane
League	Israeli Premier League
Home colours Away colours Third colours

History

The club was founded in 1906. It was the first Jewish football club in Ottoman Palestine. The name was then Rishon Lezion-Yafo. The first match was a 3-0 win against a team of French sailors. After the foundation of Tel Aviv in 1909 the clubs name was changed into Maccabi Tel Aviv. Maccabi was founding member of the Palestine Football Association and the Palestine League.

Maccabi Tel Aviv in Australia, 1939

In 1936 the club was invited to play in the United States. On the way Maccabi played in France versus Racing Paris and Olympique Lille. In the United States they played against an All-star team of New York City at Yankee Stadium. Maccabi also defeated the American Soccer League team in Brooklyn and Philadelphia on their home ground 1–0. Other matches were against St. Louis Stars and the Boston Celtics. They played also in Canada, where they drew 1–1 with Toronto All-Stars. In 1939 they played 18 matches in Australia.

After the independence in 1948 Tel Aviv was the most successful club in Israel's top league.

The 1950s decade is considered to be their "golden age" because they won 5 league championships and 4 cups. The club was almost relegated in 1976 but beat Beitar Jerusalem in the relegation play-off.

In the 2011/12 season they reached the group stage of the UEFA Europa League. The team played versus PSV Eindhoven, Rapid Bucharest and Legia Warsaw. They failed to reach the next stage (2 wins, 1 draw, 3 lost).

Current team

As of 13 October 2011

No. Position Player 1 GK Barak Levi 2 DF Klemi Saban 3 DF Uri Cohen 4 DF Nivaldo (2nd VC) 5 DF Yagil Biton 6 MF Gal Alberman 7 MF Guillermo Israilevich 9 FW Barak Itzhaki (Captain) 10 MF Haris Medunjanin 11 MF Eli Zizov 13 FW Moanes Dabour 14 DF Yoav Ziv 15 MF Dor Micha 16 FW Eliran Atar 17 DF Savo Pavićević 18 FW Moussa Konaté

No. Position Player 19 MF Roi Kahat 20 FW Dia Saba 21 MF Shiran Yeini (1st VC) 23 MF Moshe Lugasi 24 FW Roberto Colautti 25 MF Rafi Dahan 26 DF Avi Strul 27 DF Omer Vered 29 MF Rif Peretz 30 MF Omri Shkel 31 GK Yossi Ginzburg 42 DF Rahamim Checkol 43 MF Ruslan Barski 44 DF Roberto Punčec 45 MF Tom Mansharov 55 GK Guy Haimov

In an Israel team only 5 foreigners are allowed. The foreigners are:

• Nivaldo
• Haris Medunjanin
• Savo Pavićević
• Moussa Konaté
• Roberto Punčec

Honours

• Israeli championships
  • Winners (18): 1935–36, 1936–37, 1941–42, 1946–47, 1949–50, 1951–52, 1953–54, 1955–56, 1957–58, 1966–68, 1969–70, 1971–72, 1976–77, 1978–79, 1991–92, 1994–95, 1995–96, 2002–03
• Tel Aviv District championship
  • Winners (1): 1939
• State Cup
  • Winners (22) 1928–29, 1929–30, 1932–33, 1940–41, 1945–46, 1946–47, 1953–54, 1954–55, 1957–58, 1958–59, 1963–64, 1964–65, 1966–67, 1969–70, 1976–77, 1986–87, 1987–88, 1993–94, 1995–96, 2000–01, 2001–02, 2004–05
• Asian Club Championship
  • Winners (2) 1968–69, 1970–71
• Toto Cup
  • Winners (3) 1992–93, 1998–99, 2008–09
• Israeli Supercup
  • Winners (5) 1964–65 (shared cup with Hakoah Ramat Gan), 1967–68, 1976–77, 1978–79, 1987–88

Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C. Media

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  1913 Photograph of Maccabi Tel Aviv-Jafffa*From right to to left. * Back row [8 people but only 7 names]: Zeew Yenin; Yeohsua Chasnin; Yehoshua Levi; Masoud; Noah Stupenski; Binyamin Liberman * Row 3: Nesher; Unkown, Koushnir; Moshe Saloman Yatt; Zvi Nishri; (order unclear after this: Orlow, Gad Peleg, Isaac Kipnis; Koushnir * Steated on chairs: Lipman; Eliezer Goldis; Emanual Gourarie; Yehoshua Goldberg [later, rabbi in US Navy] (captain); Rehuven Gourarie; Moshe Shoham; Asher Ben David. * Seated on ground: David Tidhar; Mehahem Arber; Krol; Stupens

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  צילום קבוצתי של מכבי תל אביב 1921. *זיהוי ע"פ הספר מכבי ת"א מאה שנים ראשונות:*עומדים מימין: אפרים רובינשטיין, יוסף וילנצ'יק, שמעון לאומי, אייבי וילסון, מדנס. *כורעים מימין: טיומקין גרינפלד קצב יושבים מימין: ברוך קושניר, מילו שמורק, אליעזר פולני

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  יצחק שניאור היה כדורגלן ומאמן כדורגל ישראלי.

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  Maccabi team after winning the 1946 State Cup.

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  Noach Reznik with the State Cup, 1957.

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  State Cup final, 1964, Bloomfield Stadium.

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  Giora Spiegel, played for the club in the years 1965–1973.

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  Avi Cohen, played for the club for 13 seasons.

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  Avi Nimni, Maccabi's greatest player of the 1990s and the 2000s.